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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4200 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Saganite Agate Sep 1^st, 2014 at 6:29pm	Print Post
	I slabbed a couple pieces of nice "saganitic" agate recently and thought it was nice enough to share. The needle-like formations are what is referred to as saganite in agate like this. There are areas in this agate that could be called "mossy" and even "plumes" as well. First pic is one slab, then a close-up of the same. Third pic is another slab.

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4200 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Saganite Agate Reply #1 - Sep 1^st, 2014 at 6:34pm	Print Post
	Here's another slab, followed by a close-up. Then a couple of close-up shots of another piece of saganite agate. I would guess this agate comes from the New Mexico/Arizona area.

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4200 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Saganite Agate Reply #2 - Sep 14^th, 2014 at 7:18pm	Print Post
	I slabbed up another one ot these saganite agates and it's a little different.......

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4200 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Saganite Agate Reply #3 - Sep 14^th, 2014 at 7:25pm	Print Post
	The silver silica coating botryoidally incasing the vugs in this piece are really cool. I would like to look at these closer.

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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2971 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Saganite Agate Reply #4 - Sep 15^th, 2014 at 12:27pm	Print Post
	Cool! It's almost like fish or frog eggs or something.

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4200 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Saganite Agate Reply #5 - Sep 15^th, 2014 at 11:45pm	Print Post
	Yeah! I do want to try and get a closer look at them and their inclusions.


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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2971 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Saganite Agate Reply #6 - Sep 16^th, 2014 at 9:02am	Print Post
	Well, maybe some resemblance.

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4200 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Saganite Agate Reply #7 - Sep 16^th, 2014 at 11:14pm	Print Post
	I had to play around with it. I know the pics could be a lot better but you got to start somewhere. The silica "balls" have broken open in the last two pics.

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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2971 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Saganite Agate Reply #8 - Sep 18^th, 2014 at 7:58am	Print Post
	That's really cool. Looks like they have chlorite freckles.

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Brian Junior Member Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 53 Joined: Aug 6^th, 2014 Gender:	Re: Saganite Agate Reply #9 - Sep 18^th, 2014 at 11:27am	Print Post
	Looks like you are looking into a kaleidoscope. Awesome pics


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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4200 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Saganite Agate Reply #10 - Sep 18^th, 2014 at 10:29pm	Print Post
	Thanks, B. I was getting a little carried away there. Yeah, those last close ups were taken with the dinolite and all those "chlorite(?) freckles" have been "digitized" and are now rectangular shapes.


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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4200 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Saganite Agate Reply #11 - Oct 14^th, 2017 at 7:30pm	Print Post
	Just want to add a few more pics of one of the pink slabs.

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Tim4d God Member Offline I like creeks & rivers to do the digging for me. Posts: 658 Location: Chester, VA Joined: Feb 24^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: Saganite Agate Reply #12 - Oct 25^th, 2017 at 9:16am	Print Post
	Interesting combination of "winter" (pink, grey) and "autumn" (brown, yellow) colors in one piece.


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Wailele Junior Member Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 56 Joined: Mar 5^th, 2016 Gender:	Re: Saganite Agate Reply #13 - Dec 20^th, 2017 at 1:19am	Print Post
	Amazing slabs, Joe! They're awesome!


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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4200 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Saganite Agate Reply #14 - Dec 20^th, 2017 at 8:00pm	Print Post
	Thanks for looking!


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